Meta-Relativism 2: Asia’s Ancient Thinkers

In part 1, I dealt with relativism, agnosticism, and what I call meta-relativism, concerning thinkers mainly in ancient Greece and Continue reading →

Meta-Relativism 1: When East Meets West

Talking of relativism, one of the most famous ― or infamous ― philosophers we may immediately think of is Protagoras, Continue reading →

Becoming-insect through Clarice Lispector’s “The passion according to G.H.”

If I confirm my self and consider myself truthful, I’ll be lost because I won’t know where to inlay my Continue reading →

A Future on Fire: Climate Change and Hauntology

The spectre of climate crisis stalks our present, finding ways to mash and mangle our now into one that is Continue reading →

Mad(e) Men: Historicism and History as Told Through Period Drama and TV

In the medium of the movies (what used to be short for moving pictures) there is something called an establishing Continue reading →

Art, Technology and Truth in Martin Heidegger’s Thought

In mythology, autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός “self,” and χθών “soil”; i.e. “people sprung from earth itself”) are those mortals Continue reading →

Nietzsche and Wagner on Tragedy: The Slave and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Germany

During the nineteenth-century, the German speaking world was going through a period of rapid social and political upheaval. This tumultuous Continue reading →

Transcendental Cinema: When the Camera Turns Upon Itself

This essay is intended as a series of case studies following the ideas I presented on the “Quixote Sub Specie Continue reading →